Can't boot to Flash drive, won't even begin installing, hangs on bios splash screen

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I scoured Google and Brave for answers, and nothing helped. I’ve been trying to install Garuda for 2 days now, and I can’t get past the GIGABYTE Insist on Ultra Durable screen. As far as I know, that’s just gigabyte’s bios post screen, meaning the system won’t even begin booting from the flash drive.

I have a Gigabyte B450 Gaming X, Ryzen 3600, 32 GB RAM @ 3000 MT/s, RTX 3060 12 GB, trying to install Garuda Dr460nized Gaming through a Kingston Data Traveler 3.0 32 GB. I do have turned off secure boot, fast boot, and CSM. I tried CSM on and off already.

The weird part to me is that, when I go to the bios to choose a device to boot, I see UEFI:KingstonDataTraveler-3.0 and UEFI:KingstonDataTraveler-3.0:Partition2. Both seem to hang on the same splash screen.

I’m at a dead end here, tried multiple different flashing softwares and Linux commands. The flash drive is known good, since it installed Fedora twice, one Bazzite and one base Fedora install. I don’t think I have easy access to a Windows computer to see if I can flash on Windows, nor do I think it should be necessary.

Pls help ;u;

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Some folks have had success using Ventoy to do the installation. Be sure to choose the “grub2” option when you are booting the ISO from Ventoy.

Another method which is maybe a little tricker but works great is using cat from the command line, as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#Using_basic_command_line_utilities

Switch to a root shell:

sudo fish

(Or sudo bash works just as well).

Then target the ISO with cat, and redirect to your USB drive in /dev/disk/by-id.

cat path/to/iso > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-[whatever]

After you get to usb just press Tab to auto-complete; it should fill in with your Kingston device automatically.

Be sure to target the whole drive, not any specific partition. :backhand_index_pointing_down:

Run one of the following commands, replacing /dev/disk/by-id/usb-My_flash_drive with your drive, e.g. /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_408D5C1654FDB471E98BED5C-0:0. (Do not append a partition number, so do not use something like /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_408D5C1654FDB471E98BED5C-0:0-part1 or /dev/sdb1)

I hope that helps, welcome to the community @BalaDeSilver. :wave:

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I went for cat first, since I’m more familiar with following instructions for terminal commands, and it didn’t work, but after some struggling with how to even use Ventoy, it did work and I’m finally installing the damn thing :smiley:

The installer and overuse of AI is very cringe, but it does look like it’ll be a nice fit for me otherwise, especially because it’s Arch jank.

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